JUMP, GEORGE, JUMP!

New York Post ^ | Nov 25, 2007 | KYLE SMITH

[mware]

While watching the new colorization of “It's a Wonderful Life" on DVD - this time they got it right; no longer do you get the feeling you're watching a black-and-white film through stained glass - I thought: you know who would love this? Why, that visionary American innovator Henry F. Potter. That's right, Mr. Potter - the unsung hero of “It's a Wonderful Life," the canny businessman who tried (and, alas, failed) to turn boring, repressed Bedford Falls - a town full of drunks, child beaters, vandals and racial and sexual harassers - into an exciting new destination nightspot called Pottersville

[mware]

It was the spirit of the movie that the author missed.

[peggybac]

“Now we’ve got Mrs. Potter running for President.”

LOL - Now THAT’S funny!

[Figment]

Fig. I think that was the point in the movie.

No, the point of the movie is, if you screw up, give up. Everyone will come rushing to your rescue. BS

[peggybac]

“Remember, the guy who slugs George in the bar does so in Bedford Falls, not Pottersville.”

IIRC, Clarence brought George back to what he thought was Bedford Falls but it had been named Pottersville. When he went into the bar and no one knew him, it was here that he was slugged by someone. This was in Pottersville, not Bedford Falls. Am I right?

[DGHoodini]

I have a different amnalogy. DemoLiberals are allway going around acting like they are a League of George Baileys’, but if you look at what they actually advocate, what they push...is the world without George...The strip clubs, the thugs, the souless dog kill dog loneliness of Potterville.

The democrats allways talk, like Potter, about how they are the light, and the progress to it. When in fact what they are is the path to abandoning all hope.

[BallyBill]

Colorized Movies? If someone colorized "It's a Wonderful Life" we should throw them off a bridge.

I hope Ted Turner is down there too.

[BallyBill]

George does get slugged in Bedford Falls. He is bleeding from the lip until he goes to Potterville. The school teachers wife punched him.

[mware]

Fig if you recall, George was not left off the hook until he understood what his life meant and asked for his life back again.

Redemption my FRiend, redemption.

[fr_freak]

IIRC, Clarence brought George back to what he thought was Bedford Falls but it had been named Pottersville. When he went into the bar and no one knew him, it was here that he was slugged by someone. This was in Pottersville, not Bedford Falls. Am I right?

Nope. After George found out that his uncle lost the money and the auditors were on his heels, he freaked out. He yelled at one of his kids' school teacher for sending her home with no jacket, and it was the husband of that teacher who found George in the bar and slugged him, all before George tried to commit suicide.

[Turret Gunner A20]

Now we’ve got Mrs. Potter running for President.

Are you sure? Looks like Old Man Potter in an ill-fitting, lumpy suit. ***apologies to the late Lionel Barrymore***

[Figment]

“Seems to me George did more good than harm”

I didn’t say he did any harm. He lived a life that was what was expected, nothing spectacular. When the chips were down though, he takes the cowards way out and is rewarded for it.
Some message.
And to make matters worse, Potter gets off scott free

[mware]

No peg, he was in Bedford Falls, at the time he got punched in the mouth.

At that point in the movie, Potter knew that George did not have the money to balance the accounts and told him that he was worth more dead than alive.

[peggybac]

Oh yes! Thank you both so much. I remember now. DOH!

[peggybac]

Thank you!

[Gone_Postal]

I never got that part of the movie. Why was the uncle depositing that money in Potter’s bank?

only bank in town
guess they didn't have online backing back then

[Gone_Postal]

backing = banking

[Straight Vermonter]

The author fails to mention that George was out driving drunk and damaging the property of others.

[DManA]

Didn’t they run their own bank?

[mware]

Baily ran a Saving In Loan.

[Figment]

I much prefer the “lost ending to “it’s a Wonderful Life”
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mbSBqwM3_2c